Satellite television is available worldwide now. Different kinds of receivers are available for it in market. You will be guaranteed to get a lot of channels and you will not have to bother with setting up satellite installation. Vision V-800 is a new addition to our test centre.

You can enjoy not only FTA services but also scrambled services using the smart card. This receiver currently supports various types of smart cards. If no smart card is used, then only free to air programmes will be received.

The front panel of Vision V-800 Digital Satellite Receiver is very nicely designed. The front panel window display is situated in the middle of the box. There are total seven buttons on the front panel for various functions. There is also a Smart Card Slot on the right side for access to pay channels. The rear panel is equipped with two scart connectors, serial interface RS-232 for uploading new receiver software, RCA jacks, IF out put, S/PDIF and a programmable 12 volt output. The remote control supplied with the box is much attractive. The user manual supplied with the receiver is written only in English.

After plugging the receiver and pressing the stand by button on remote control, the main menu will appear on your screen. The main menu displays various functions of the receiver. When a function is selected, the title of the function changes its color. To proceed to the next stage, press the OK button on remote control.

The installation allows you to set the antenna and various functions and customized services. After selecting the main menu function and pressing the OK button on the main menu screen or selecting the service searching function and pressing the OK button to skip main menu.

Vision V-800 Satellite Receiver has the capacity to store unlimited TV and Radio channels. The user can communicate with the receiver in different languages. Every user will get an easy language for communication.

After selecting all parameters, now it's the way to channel search. Before going for channels search, if you select Scan All option, then the receiver will search all channels on the selected satellite and if you select to Scan Free channels, the receiver will search only free channels. 1433 TV and 315 Radio channels were searched in eight minutes. The search was slow as compared to other receiver scanning.

After the complete scanning, the receiver first save the channels and then goes on the first channel found. The scanned channels can be moved to one of the favourite list for easy recall later time. These channels can be rename, sort and edit. The Info bar that appears for a number of seconds when switching to another channel or when the Info button is pushed on the remote, displays the channel number and satellite name with transponder and frequency. If you want to use blind search function, then press the ok button and insert symbol rate and frequency and press the ok button again for scanning. It will start to search for that symbol rate between start and end frequency.

Symbolrates starting at the rate of 2.45ms/sec were processed easily during our tests. The receiver switches automatically between PAL and NTSC. Manual PID entry is also possible. Receiving SCPC signals is an easy way for Vision receivers.

Vision V-800 is an easy to use family receiver. The menus are very nicely organized. The EPG is designed with clarity and loads the data reasonably fast and then reliably displays this information. Kids may be kept away from adult channels through parental control function. If you are feeling bore and there is nothing to watch, you can entertain yourself by video games.